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QUAD Field Painting

Learn the step-by-step process to paint clear and accurate lines on a dog sports field. Includes tips for measuring, squaring lines, creating buffer zones, and using the right paint.

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QUAD Field Painting

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  1. QUAD Field Painting

  2. 1. Knife • 2. 2 - Rolls of 800-ft line • 18 - Large spikes • 4. 100-yd tape measure

  3. Stretch out 100-yd tape Place a cone (or paint cans) at each end of the tape. Just look at your field lay out

  4. Are there any problem areas on the field? Holes, dirt patches. Where do you want the throwing line to be (both ends)? Adjust cones to good areas of the field for throwing line locations.

  5. Get the big picture of what is going on with that field before doing anything else.

  6. Lines are painted 80-ft across the field. 20-ft buffer zone on each sideline (empty open space). Field size is 120-ft across.

  7. 20-ft buffer zones on sidelines Paint lines 80-ft across field 120-ft total across the field

  8. With cones at each end of field… you stretch two lines (very tight) the full length of the field.

  9. Tie a loop at each end of string. Push one spike good and deep into the ground with your foot. It’s very important to make sure the spikes are in good !!

  10. The string must be pulled very tight like a bow string. If you did a poor job with the spike, they can fly out of the ground and disappear on the field. NOT GOOD !!

  11. Top priority is to not lose any spikes on the field where our dogs will be running.

  12. With two lines stretched 80-ft apart 80-ft 80-ft One end line needs to be squared.

  13. The method is called 3 - 4 - 5. In our case we will be using 30 - 40 - 50 ft.

  14. Stretch out an end line, and measure 30-ft up the sideline. Mark 30-ft with a nail or spike in the ground by the sideline string.

  15. Measure 40-ft from the corner and mark the middle of the endline. Use nails or spikes in the ground to mark 40-ft. Do not mark the line itself because the line stretches when adjustments are made.

  16. Now measure from the 30-ft mark on the sideline toward the 40-ft mark on the endline. 50 40 30 If the lines are square it’s 50-ft

  17. If it’s not 50-ft… you have to adjust your endline until it is 50-ft. 50 40 30 This is a two person job.

  18. This does not have to be your throwing line The throwing line can be moved forward or backwards. But it should be based off of this squared line.

  19. Now measure 40-ft to the middle of the other end of the field. Then stretch the mid-field line, tight like a bow string.

  20. Now run the 100-yd tape from the throwing line down the field. Every 3-ft mark a small paint tick inside the line on the grass

  21. Every 5-yds make a “T” with the small paint tick.

  22. This is done the full length of the field… 100-yds

  23. Roll up the tape, and repeat a tick of paint every 3-feet down the middle line. Paint a “T” every 5-yds the full length of the field… 100-yds

  24. Roll up the tape, and repeat a tick of paint every 3-feet down the last sideline. Paint a “T” every 5-yds the full length of the field… 100-yds

  25. Roll up the tape, and cut the rest of your lines to go across the field. Every 5-yds a line is stretched like a bow string across the field.

  26. Every 5-yds a dashed line is painted. Every 10-yd line is a solid painted line.

  27. These lines are painted out to 80-yds Do not go past 80-yds yet. Save your paint and if enough is left… go farther.

  28. Go to the throwing line middle line, measure and mark out 10-ft in both directions. Repeat the same at the other end of the field. This will be the potential throwing lines.

  29. Fill in all of your lines across the field. Measure out 20-ft on each side line and pull a string.

  30. Paint a dashed line, this is your 20-ft buffer zone. Nobody gets to put a tent up inside this area.

  31. Fill in all of the hash marks out to 80-yds. The direction you think they might throw from.

  32. Remember not to paint sidelines, just hash marks. There is no out of bounds with The QUAD.

  33. This is what you end up with. 80-ft lines, with 20-ft buffers, a total of 120-ft wide.

  34. Last Chance Field is only painted lines 70-ft wide. Still with a 20-ft buffer zone on each sideline.

  35. I’ve been able to paint 2 fields with 1-dozen cans of white, and half a dozen cans of orange paint. The secret is painting hash marks last as much as possible, and seeing how much paint you have left before making the field longer.

  36. More than 2 or 3 people helping makes it hard to keep mistakes from happening with accuracy. Dogs running loose while painting is beyond difficult.

  37. White is the best color of paint to use, and Orange. Yellow and Red paints do not work very well.

  38. Start as early in the day as possible to avoid any extra suffering beyond what your going to get anyhow.

  39. Painting 2 fields and competing the same day is a recipe for great pain and suffering.

  40. Painting a day or two ahead of the competition makes life so much more pleasant.

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